The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-02
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY
About People whose Names Are Before
the puh1ie

About People Whose Names Are Before
the Public
Panl Triton, son of Theodore Tiiton, IS
making reputation as an artist m Rome
Gen. Sherman is said to have fear that be
win be the next Of the wsr heroes TO die
N. Pasteur is to retire from active practice
soon to avoid paralysis, with which he IS
threatened
Munkacsy is to return TO America next
summer for the purpose of painting Niagara
Falls.
Ex-Governor Hoadly, looking happy and
well, tells New York reporter that private
life is better than any public office.
Queen yictoria's New Years gifts to the
poor of Windsor included thousand prime
joints of beef and a hundred tons Of coal
Bismarck Is said to have drunk nine
glasses of cold brandy and water in making
his war speech before the German reichstag.
The Baroness Rothschild in Paris has an
nounced coming series of Sunday afternoon
dances for young girls.
Governor Ireland, of Texas, declares in a
published letter that the needs OF starving
people in that state have not been exag-
gerafed-
The assertion is repeated upon apparently
good authority that Col John Hay Is the
author of the 'sBreadwinners,n although he
recently denied it
Mrs Thurber states that there are eighty
singers in the National opera chorus, of which
sixty-two are Americans and but eighteen
foreigners of all nationalities.
Ex-Governor Curtin had an operation per
formed on his right eye, that has been sight
less for more than twenty years, by which
the sight has been entirely restored
William Black, the novelist, has obtained
in London a verdict of e10o damages against
Bow Bells for ibelous assertions respecting
his early life and parsimonious habits.
1t is said that James Brown Potter has be
come suddenly rich by the rise of coffee. HI
| is reported TO have made $4,000 in one day
and $50, the day following.
The Marquis de Mores, the millionaire COW
boy Of Montana, has leased a house in New
York for four months, paying $4,000 fol
| rent of house and furniture.
John Lawrence Sullivan, the hitter, il
! going to make book bearing his name a!
| author. A contract binding him to his worl
is reposing snugly in drawer at one of tn,
| publishing houses in New York city.
/ queen Oh Def dlIlnES In
carriage for which she paid 5000 1t wa
| built for the triumphal entry of the Comte d
Chambotd into Paris, which never tool
| place, owing to circumstances over which tn,
| comte had no control
Mrs. Mackay paid $40 for box at til,
| representation of la Patrie' for the benefi
| of the flood sufferers, and went from Londo,
| to Paris to attend it. When she got there he
| doctor prohibited her wearing low cut dress
so she ordered and had completed in twenty
| four hours a splendid directory costume o
| blue velvet and satin and lace.
Paymaster Milton B. Cushing, a retired of
| ficer of the navy, who died recently, was al
| older brother of the famous Commando
| William B. Cushing, whose destruction O
the Confederate ram Albemarle was one o
the most daring acts of the war. There wer
four brothers. all of whom are now dead an,
| mourned for by their aged mother, who still
lives, at the age of IS, with her daughter il
| Missouri.